Monday, 16 January 2017

Count Zero

So I finally acquired a replacement copy of this, and it was
good. In the light of having read most of Gibson’s other stuff it was a little
underwhelming, to be honest, in that it’s a very, very obvious bridge between Neuromancer (the plot’s essentially a
carbon copy) and the Bigend ‘cool hunting’ books, and it doesn’t manage to
execute either aspect quite as well as those it links together. Judged as a
stand-alone work, however, it’s a very slickly executed piece of cyberpunk,
which is only to be expected, I suppose.